actors Quotes

I\'m not gonna be one of those actors who\'s like, \'It\'s such a drag to not see your kids.\' Of course it is, but that\'s the compromise that you\'re making.

I don\'t \'handle\' people. It\'s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It\'s very easy to say whatever\'s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It\'s difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, \'All actors are in trouble. Directors who don\'t help are a pain in the ass\'. We all need help from directors. We are all equally insecure.

Actors are not necessarily smart people.

My sense of myself is that I\'m a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That\'s my job, to be ready. I\'m some kind of first responder.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

Actors are very often people who are placed in a position where they think they have to be grateful for the job and have no control over what they play and how they play it. I was not taught that way. I completely disagree with that. I think that you have more control than you think.

We believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations, as well as military equipment, at the hands of Ukraine, or the West.

Actors don\'t really sit around discussing the parts they\'ve played - just in case someone says, \'That was crap!\'

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

I think that it\'s important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it\'s a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.

My favorite actors are people who I don\'t know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they\'re spontaneous as a tax return.

I think there\'s a tendency for actors like myself, and I don\'t mean to generalize myself, but I\'ve played \'men\'s men,\' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There\'s a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

Are there differences between black actors\' opportunities and white actors\' opportunities? Yes, there are. It\'s been said.

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

People are comedians, we are actors.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.

Avatar artist. (Anatoly Yurkin)

We do not train actors, but we reveal new facets in children

In hatred of the Director, the actor is likened to a janitor, aloud objecting to the architect.

An actor can play the role of a solipsist on the stage, on the radio, in a staged interview, in a movie or in a video game, but the cruel truth of VR is that the game is a solipsical antimatter.

The whole world is a theater. And the people in it are actors. And the special services is the audience.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.